Hundreds of men are allegedly missing after crossing from rebel-held eastern Aleppo to the government-controlled west, the United Nations said Friday, as it voiced deep concern for the fate of some 100,000 civilians still trapped in the east.

The US supreme court sided with the Korean smartphone maker in its patent fight with Apple and reversed an appeals court decision that Samsung had to pay a $399m penalty to Apple for copying iPhone designs. [...]

Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Twitter will cooperate to detect and remove extremist content on their platforms via an information-sharing initiative. They agreed to create a shared database of unique digital fingerprints for images and videos promoting terrorism. After one company has detected and deleted such content, [...]

The court ruled in favor of a wrongfully accused individual, who was sued for allegedly downloading a pirated copy of the Hollywood movie. The judge said that the man is entitled to more than $17,000 in compensation because of the moviemakers’ overaggressive and unreasonable tactics widely known as “copyright trolling”. [...]